1. Requirements for Adaptive Multimedia with VLE Integration BPC & DEC Software Systems Research Group Suzy CuttsPhilip DaviesDavid NewellNick Rowe Bournemouth University Bournemouth and Poole College Bournemouth University Bournemouth and Poole College

2. VLE Integration Opportunity BU Student Portal to range of learning resources One stop shop SUE survey interface BlackBoard v8 ISSUES Interface unintuitive, dated Lacks interactivity Not widely accepted in PI, by staff or students Widely used across PIs BPC UCY, Yeovil Weymouth E.g. Moodle – Cisco unit learning materials, wide adoption, many years use, flexibility ISSUES Embedded course materials In place 5+ years Lacks uniform experience

3. Adding Integration & Adaptation Stage 1: Network VLEs Stage 2: Add Common Interface/Application Case Study – Cisco ‘VIRTUAL TRAINING MODULE’ – Adaptive – Multimedia Presentation System – Contextual Supplemental Support Interactive (staff/student) Adaptive FAQ ‘Requirements for an Adaptive Multimedia Presentation System with Contextual Supplemental Support Media’

4. Initial Requirements Network Laboratories at BU, BPC, Yeovil Cisco Packet Tracer 5.1 Record animation and voice over of lab instructions Web Browser: Flash Multimedia Platform – Embed content description as metadata in XML – Navigation: menu adapts to content description – FAQ – dynamic segmentation of VTM, tutors answers in HTML files linked to Flash timestamp in XML – Content /XML in VTM adapts to students’ needs Interface common to BB/MyBU and Moodle

5. Starts as Web Application - VTM

6. Integrate Web App in Moodle VTM Prototype in DEC network labs To maintain security – Isolated from BU Network/Internet Use For Cisco Certification Courses (UG/PG/CPD, etc) Cannot access general labs or remotely/wireless Cannot access from inside MyBU (Cannot create Certification/CPD cohorts on MyBU) Add Web App VTM to Moodle

7. VTM in Moodle @ BU

8. Integration with Moodle @BPC Host Web App VTM on Moodle Server at BPC – Available to BPC (BU PI FdSc) students learning material for any BPC network unit Can be accessed internally via BPC Intranet/Wireless and remotely by BPC students at home – Cannot be accessed from MyBU PI accounts without second login to a moodle account – Add VTM to Moodle hosted at BPC Lansdowne

9. Embedding VTM in Moodle @ BPC

10. Integration with MyBU @BU Add VTM to myContent – (quota issue?) Add menu item ‘E-Learning’ to student menu – (File locking issue in MyBU students’ accounts) Flash file streams within MyBU account – Can access anywhere via mybu.bournemouth.ac.uk Next step is to create integrated ‘Building Block’

11. Embedding VTM in MyBU

12. Blackboard/MyBU Building Block ‘Building Blocks’ is a Blackboard technology to integrate a Web App into the BB menu system – BB v9 ‘tag library’ files are prepared, WIP – BBv9 test installation set up at BU Create and test VTM as BBv9 feature – BBv9 : ‘integration with other LMS’ – Allows one login to multiple LMS Host VTMs on either platform and run on either Host anywhere/access from anywhere

13. Initial Findings Users experience of MyBU and Moodle are very different at BU and PIs Users experience of VTM in Moodle and Blackboard/MyBU will be the same – Slightly easier to host VTM on Moodle at PIs – Lack of LMS integration/inflexible features in BBv8 force separate hosting of the VTM on Moodle – BBv9 claims improved integration of VLEs Further work on XML/Metadata/Ontology – Describe dynamic VTM content – Ontology based content retrieval engine

14. Demo - BlackBoard/MyBU

15. Dissemination IEEE MMEDIA2009 First International Conference on Multimedia, July 2009, Colmar, France (Joint BU-BPC Paper accepted) EPSRC Sandpit hosted by Southampton Uni – Digital Economy strand, £3m, joint bid National Cisco Academy at Birmingham BCU – Integration with Packet Tracer eAssessment Tool Enterprise Opportunity (global user base) Enhancing the Student Experience – UG & CPD

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